Read the passage from "Us and Them."
Wondering about the Tomkey family had made me feel generous, but now I would have to shift gears and find pleasure in hating them. The only alternative was to do as my mother had instructed and take a good look at myself. This was an old trick, designed to turn one's hatred inward, and while I was determined not to fall for it, it was hard to shake the mental picture snapped by her suggestion: here is a boy sitting on a bed, his mouth smeared with chocolate. He's a human being, but also he's a pig, surrounded by trash and gorging himself so that others may be denied. Were this the only image in the world, you'd be forced to give it your full attention, but fortunately there were others. This stagecoach, for instance, coming round the bend with a cargo of gold. This shiny new Mustang convertible. This teenage girl, her hair a beautiful mane, sipping Pepsi through a straw, one picture after another, on and on until the news, and whatever came on after the news. Based on the passage, a reader can infer that the narrator did not learn his lesson as a child. How well does the passage support the inference?
0 It does not support the inference well because it indicates the narrator's mother will punish him.
0 It does not support the inference well because it hints that the narrator will apologize to the Tomkeys.
0 It supports the inference well because it shows how television programs quickly distract the narrator.
0 It supports the inference well because it suggests that the narrator feels no remorse over his decisions
